Chimes! Goddamn you're looking old... @davidbowies-bulge - Tumblr Blog

ball pythons yawn a lot too.

I work in a public library. Because I follow you here on Tumblr & you're so nice to everyone I feel guilty every time I have to discard one of your books. But what else can I do when the book is either falling apart, water/coffee/soda damaged, or some doofus has written in it? And yet, still, I feel bad even though we can buy new copies to replace the ruined ones.

I'm reminded of a librarian from a little town in the Appalachians who told me that my books were their most frequently checked out and never returned. I expressed dismay and she told me it was okay: they'd found their people. Library books can live hard lives, but it's probably better than the books that sit for thirty years pristine and untouched on a shelf, and are eventually discarded because they take up shelf space a book people might want to read needs.

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Kate Bush with her dogs Bonnie & Clyde in outtakes from the “Hounds of Love” cover shoot (1985)

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Ziegfeld Follies girl Eva Brady, c.1920s.

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It’s an old tradition that during a leap year women could propose to men. This was usually depicted as old or ugly women trapping men, but some art focused more on the role reversal and could be quite cute.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.

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